I was homeschooled up until my freshman year of high school, and up until that point, I had never really used a computer to write anything, so when I got into high school, I had to learn how to dos something that everybody else my age had already learned how to do. Before this past week, I had never thought about writing as a technology, actually, I don’t really know what I considered writing, I guess I just never really thought about what writing should be considered. However, after thinking about writing as a technology, it really does make me look at writing differently. It makes actually knowing how to write feel more like a privilege than it was before because there are some people in the world that do not get the opportunity to learn how to read and write and it makes me feel more appreciative of writing.
As far as non-traditional writing goes, I am not really sure if I use any non-traditional forms in my everyday life. I spend a lot of time in the internet, so if any kind of writing I do on there would count as a non-traditional form of writing, then I guess that I do use non-traditional forms every day. For my career plans, I am wanting to work in video and audio production, and I would not be surprised if I will have to do some kind of script writing at some point in my future, and I am not really sure if that is considered a traditional form of writing or not, but it is not a normal type of writing that I do daily. As for other forms of writing, I am not 100% sure what kinds of writing I will face.
The different types of writing that we used in class were interesting and for most people in the U.S, there are forms that we will probably never use regularly, but that does not mean that other people in the world have the same opportunity that we have here, so a crayon might be their best material that they have available, so it makes me feel a little bit more grateful for the materials that we have available to us.
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